Thursday, 6 April 2017

High-end professional audio equipment manufacturer Antelope Audio is proud to announce a refreshed version of Orion Studio — a 2017 revision spearheading its innovative Orion family of professional audio interfaces, immediately distinguishable from its 2015-released popular predecessor on the outside, courtesy of an eye-catching carbon grey-coloured faceplate, while internally boasting brand-new, ear-opening analogue-to-digital convertors to achieve an unmatched 124dB dynamic range alongside the company’s lauded low-latency performance par excellence — which will be making its debut during a must-see showcase at Musikmesse 2017, April 5-8, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Antelope Audio CEO Igor Levin states, “Sound quality has been our primary focus for all of our product designs, and we are pleased to launch this significant update to our popular Orion Studio. With these updates, customers are able to realise an even higher degree of audio quality in real time, while employing our other new innovations, such as Session Presets and intuitive routing capabilities.”

But beyond that eye-catching carbon grey-coloured faceplate is where the trailblazing Antelope Audio action excites as the company continues to shake up the industry. Indeed, the launch of Orion Studio Rev. 2017 coincides with the addition of several new compressors to the company’s cutting-edge, expanding library of hardware-based FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) effects, providing hardware models of some of the most desirable vintage effects around with realtime performance to boot. Better still, users of Orion Studio Rev. 2017 can now open up to 32 compressor models at once, and all without sacrificing any of the 40 available EQ instances! In fact, this is a major advantage over DSP (Digital Signal Processing) since those ultra-realistic, realtime hardware effects are handled within the interface itself, without taxing the host DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) — perfect for realtime tracking and monitoring, and easily routable to work on a mix inside the DAW, duly broadening the available sonic palette on any laptop or desktop in the process. Pushing onwards and upwards, Antelope Audio’s soon-to-be-released Accusonic microphone and mic preamps take full advantage of this realtime technology.

Topping things off, Antelope Audio’s all-new Session Presets software revolutionises the way that studios record and mix, speeding up session workflow with an ability to instantly save, load, and share any of these routing, monitoring, and effects settings across multiple studio rooms or facilities. Furthermore, the recently added Routing Matrix view offers a detailed alternative to the company’s classic drag-and-drop routing interface and users can control as many Orion professional audio interfaces as they can connect with the new serial number selector in the Control Panel desktop software — even opening multiple panels!

Put it this way: Antelope Audio’s refreshed version of Orion Studio has it all — the most mic preamps, best sound quality, lowest latency, realtime effects, powerful new saving tools, and multiple software panels to control any Antelope Audio interface on a network via Mac, PC, iOS, or Android. Adding it all up, no other interfaces compare to the fastest-growing platform in pro audio.

Antelope Audio will be displaying and demoing Orion Studio Rev. 2017 in Hall 9.0, Booth E28 at Musikmesse 2017, April 5-8, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Get down there to check it out. Witnesses will surely be impressed by what they see and hear.